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Re: Flame bait du jour

• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>,Doug Royer <Doug@R...>
• Subject: Re: Flame bait du jour
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:38:09 +0000
• In-reply-to: <3E63EB90.6010508@R...>
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On Monday 03 March 2003 23:56, Doug Royer wrote:

> Yes! And I wonder how many people that try to shoot down XML
> have ever had to hand write a parser for complex data transfers
> that use arbitrary data models.

Me :-) I prefer writing BER parsers to writing XML parsers, it's easier in my 
opinion...

> One parser bug can ruin your whole project.

Likewise with XML; XML does not have any special parser-bug-resilience 
properties. Likewise, one OS bug, runtime system bug, compiler bug, hardware 
bug, library bug, application bug, ... can ruin your whole project.

ABS

-- 
A city is like a large, complex, rabbit
 - ARP

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